Subliminal Quotes - Page 3

• She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

  J. K. Rowling

  Confused, Resilience, Asking

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• I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Self

  "Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

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• When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa. When you see African-Americans, they're stronger because of what they've gone through. It's even subliminal; I think it becomes in their genes.

  Gavin Friday

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part!

  Joe Vitale

  Beautiful, Powerful, Block

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• Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Writing, Levels, Sometimes

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• Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Way, Poetic

  Source: collider.com

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• I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.

  Michael Longley

  Space, Meditation, Needs

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
  psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Antiques

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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• America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Self, America

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

  Jane Fonda

  Book, Goal, Not Happy

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• People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

  Grant Achatz

  Hard Work, Creativity, Sleep

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• television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Photograph, Seeing

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• I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

  Susan Sontag

  Principles, Provinces

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.251, Macmillan

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